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Cairo station = Bab el-Hadid / Gabriel Talhami presents ; screen play, Abdel Hay Adib ; dialogue, Mohamad Abou Youssef ; produced by Gabriel Talhami ; directed by Youssef Chahine.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 038 234 disc + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1273.
- The Criterion collection ; 1273
- Standardized Title:
- Bab el-Hadid (Motion picture)
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Unrequited love--Drama.
- Unrequited love.
- Working poor--Egypt--Cairo--Drama.
- Working poor.
- Railroad stations--Egypt--Cairo--Drama.
- Railroad stations.
- Cairo (Egypt)--Drama.
- Cairo (Egypt).
- Genre:
- Film noir.
- Crime films.
- Fiction films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Motion pictures, Arabic.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (1 folded leaf ; 18 cm)
- 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Edition:
- DVD special edition.
- Other Title:
- Bab el-Hadid
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2025]
- Language Note:
- Arabic dialogue; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD; NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.37:1) presentation; monaural.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.
- Participant:
- Farid Chawqi, Hind Rostom, Youssef Chahine.
- Credits:
- Editor, Kamal Abul Ela ; music score, Fouad El Zahiry ; director of photography, Alvise.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1958.
- Full screen (1.37:1).
- Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; new 2K digital restoration of Cairo as Seen by Chahine (1991), a short documentary by Yousef Chahine, with an introduction by film scholar Joseph Fahim; new interview with Fahim; Chahine. . .Why? (2009), a documentary on the director and Cairo Station; excerpt from Chahine's appearance at the 1998 Midnight Sun Film Festival ; an essay by Fahim.
- ISBN:
- 9798886073171
- OCLC:
- 1523707417
- Publisher Number:
- 715515317610
- CC3714D The Criterion Collection
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